Memphis rapper Snootie Wild dead at 36 after being shot in Houston
Rapper Snootie Wild died Saturday after being found shot in a ditch a day earlier. He was 36.
“Gone in body, but your NAME & LEGACY will live forever!” reads a post from his official Instagram account.
Snootie Wild, born LePreston Porter, hit Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with his first single, “Yayo,” in 2013. The song caught the attention of Yo Gotti and T.I., who both remixed it, which eventually got him signed to Gotti’s CMG record label.
His social media accounts tied his death to an early morning shooting Friday, in which an unidentified victim was found shot in the neck next to an SUV in a ditch, according to ABC 13.
The victim was hospitalized in critical condition.
A spokesperson for the Houston Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily News Sunday.
No arrests have been announced.
Snootie Wild is the second Memphis rapper to be gunned down in barely four months, following 36-year-old Young Dolph’s fatal shooting in his hometown in November.
